I ask all Guatemalans to forgive one another ... and together join the pilgrimage toward the goal of national reconciliation.

In the name of the state, I ask forgiveness for the historic responsibility it has for the pain and death suffered by dozens of thousands of Guatemalans in 36 years of armed conflict.

Today we want to begin a tradition. We have a purpose that could not be more beautiful and more noble than peace.

I likened my arrival to Paris as a pilgrimage.

Ere the days of his pilgrimage vanish, How pleasant to know Mr

Be kind to all beings - this is more meritorious than bathing at the sixty-eight sacred shrines of pilgrimage and the giving of charity.